Breaking apart layers in After Effects has some added possibilities with Voronoi Shatter 2. Providing the ability to use a Voronoi pattern on selected masks in After Effects Layers, Voronoi Shatter can “re-break” Layers for further animation.

Voronoi Shatter can generate voronoi masks on selected layers and create voronoi shape layers

Voronoi Shatter 2 provides more flexibility and refinements in creating shatters, most notably adds the ability to use random, selection and a brightness map to generate patterned pieces.

In addition, You can now also use masks to cut your your pieces, giving you the opportunity to add shatter patterns to things like outlined type in After Effects. Check out the update to Voronoi Shatter 2 for After Effects here for more information.